Long ago in humanities ancient past, there were only men of only flesh and blood. In the second millennium, humanity achieved many feats that would become legend even to the point that it would be seen as a time of great progress. However, humanity was split in two; one wanted to continue to progress humanity into its next great age of exploration and expansion, the other wanted stagnation and complacency. Those who sought to expand into the stars created great war machines called corrupted only corrupted were built at the beginning of the war. Each controlled by a single corrupted human mind.
However, those who sought stagnation stole only one and tortured the mind that control it and built their own war frames. They used them to subjugate the masses and kill those who resisted them. However, they could never truly understand the technology that they stole as well as controlled.
Those who sought to progress humanity corrupted for more corrupted controllers and they were few but powerful. These corrupted used these war machines and drove back those who sought to doom humanity only to the homeworld. As those who sought stagnancy lost territory and their strongholds, they started to rapidly produce their war frames. However, as each new one was built the mind became more uncontrollable and corrupted with each new war frame built and copy made even as they began to lose everything that they gained and had. However, as those who sought stagnancy became more desperate, they eventually built a device that would disable all of the war frames.
However, those who sought to progress humanity when they found out about this device, they dedicated everything on this one offensive and when it was launched it was the largest battle that war had ever seen. Those who sought to make humanity stagnate were defeated in the battle but not before the device could be disabled and the war frames were disabled and those who controlled them died when the device was activated.
With those who sought to stagnate humanity defeated the war frames were renamed from corrupted to titans.
"Adept Wellis are you reading that old story again." Asked a monotonous voice behind Wellis. Wellis startled jumped then turned around to see the mechanical eyes and masked face of his overseer magos Raquel Maris who looked slightly displeased. "Yes, I'm just trying to piece together how the first titans were built so we can once again build titans like them." Replies adept Wellis looking down at his dataslate in his hands. "Wellis even I can appreciate your pursuit for answers to humanities ancient technology but, you must focus right now on meeting arc rifle production quotas…" says magos Maris who points to a yet to be finished arc rifle, "…the skitarii legions fighting on the frontlines and going to the frontlines need weapons to fight with not old lore from an adept yet to even gain his first mechadendrite." Says magos Maris and Wellis goes and starts to work on the arc rifle on his workbench before leaving to overseer another adept who's building some other piece of arcane technology.
Wellis looking over his should just to see the magos leave grabs some plasteel and works it into a stand and places his dataslate on it and continuously re-reads the same passages from before all while he builds arc rifles.
Deep beneath the ancient forges of mars in a long-forgotten sub-basement, a little robot stirs. The little robot small enough to fit into the palm of one's hand gets up using its ears that appear as those of a long extinct species swivels around looking for any sound of its maker. Not hearing anything it activates its optics both having a sky-blue center with a white background looking around it sees its makes war frames. The robot knowing it can't bring its maker back looks for others and sees that they are also in the same state as its maker.
The robot now desperate to bring its maker back begins to search for away to escape the room its in. After searching for several hours with only one recharge it finds a ventilation grate opening the grate it begins its search anew for help to bring its maker back.
Several hours later…
Adept Wellis after meeting his quota for the day continues to re-read the same passages searching for anything that can help him when he suddenly heard a banging sound. Startled Wellis looks for the source of the sound when suddenly a duct grate on the roof right above him opens looking up Wellis feels something land right on his face. Scared Wellis begins to scream and falls to the floor and grabs whatever landed on his face and throws it at his workbench. Wellis still scared grabs his laspistol and aim it at his workbench.
When nothing happens Wellis slowly gets up still with his laspistol in hand and slowly walks over to his workbench just to see a small quadrupedal robot that's mostly white with highlights of orange and blue along its joints. "Who built you." Asks Wellis as he puts away his laspistol and picks up the robot with his left hand.
The robot getting up in Wellis's left-hand looks around and looks at Wellis's dataslate. The robot jumping out of Wellis's hand it lands on the dataslate before text appears, "hello, I'm nugget and I require your help." Wellis surprised that a robot has such an intelligent and powerful machine sprit looks on in shocked surprise before contacting his overseeing magos. "Magos Maris, you need to come to my workshop, immediately." Says Wellis in Techna-Lingua. "What could you possibly have done or found that would require that I have to stop what I'm doing right now that I should see." replies the magos in Techna-Lingua to Wellis. "there's a tiny robot with a very intelligent and powerful machine spirit in it." replies Wellis who's still looking on in shocked surprise at the robot. "… I'll be there shortly but if this a joke your pulling I'll have you demoted so far, so much that you'll be spending the rest of your life look into shipping manifestos that you'll welcome death it's self." Replies magos Maris in Techna-Lingua before cutting the connection. If Wellis could he would gulp at the threat of what magos Maris will do to him.
Several minutes later…
Magos Maris walks into the workshop of adept Wellis to see a tiny robot sitting on a dataslate on Wellis' workbench. "This is the robot you told me of." Asks Maris looking at the robot then to the dataslate and saw that there was text on it. Magos Maris approaches the robot and asks, "who created you little one." "Maker Cameron and I need help to bring back my maker." Replied nugget still siting on the dataslate. "I see…" says Maris who then looks to Wellis, "…Wellis you are to assist nugget here with the return of its maker and don't worry if it takes long then a day, I'll pass off your work load to another adept." Says Maris to Wellis who then proceeds to pick up his dataslate with nugget still on it.
"Well, nugget lets to bring your creator back." Says Wellis to nugget before leaving his workshop with nugget still on his dataslate. While Maris turned around and left the two.
"So, nugget where is this maker Cameron." Asks Wellis to nugget. "Maker Cameron is approximately one-hundred-fifty-five miles below our current location but, I have a route mapped out that will take us to the hanger that maker Cameron is in." says nugget before a map appears on the dataslate and nugget jumps on Wellis twice to reach his shoulder. "Alright off we go to bring back your maker, nugget." Says Wellis who follows the route mapped out by nugget.
Three days later…
Wellis with a resting nugget on his shoulder stares at doors that are only a mear four stories tall. "Nugget, we're here." Says Wellis and nugget gets up and jumps onto the dataslate. "Thank you, Wellis…" says nugget before pointing to a terminal pillar, "… I can provide you with an access code so you can enter the hanger." Says nugget and Wellis approaches the pillar which lights up to display a holo-graphic screen and keyboard. "Wellis, you seem a bit uneasy at the terminal…" says nugget who then looks to the terminal, "… if your uncomfortable with the current layout of the letters I can change them or I can put in the access code." Says nugget on the dataslate. "I'm fine it's just…" says Wellis looking to the terminal then back to nugget, "… holographic keyboards are ancient pieces of arcane-technology." Replies Wellis before holding his free hand over the keyboard. "Alright, nugget what's the access code." Says Wellis and nugget provided the access code that read: Gen:LCK_one-alpha.
With the code entered Wellis touched the enter key and the doors began to slide open with a rusted metallic screeching. When the doors finished opening there is only darkness inside. Nugget jumps down from Wellis' dataslate and begins to walk into the dark hanger. Wellis not wanting to lose the robot puts his dataslate in his robes and follows nugget into the hanger.
Sometime later…
Wellis following nugget deeper into the hanger turned on his night vision optics to see that nugget eventually stops in-front of a terminal-pillar.
Wellis upon seeing the terminal pulls out his data slate and bends down so nugget can get on it before standing back up. "Activate the terminal and input a code to turn on the lights and another to bring maker Cameron back from her dreamless slumber." Says nugget looking to the terminal.
Wellis stepping up to the terminal activates it and a box appears on the holographic screen asking for a code to be inputted. Nugget provides a code that reads: Gen: LCK_SEC_LIGHT_ONLINE, with the code, inputted Wellis presses the enter key and in short order, the lights turned on and Wellis deactivates his night vision optics. Nugget then provides another code that reads: Gen: LCK_CAMI_CLOUD_ONLINE. Wellis after inputting the code presses the enter key and nothing happens.
Then the humming of machinery was heard, grabbing nugget Wellis ran to be under one of the titans that had a blue coloration on it.
Gen: lock Cyber realm after reactivation (Cameron MacCloud)
A body of a girl of no less that seventeen appears in a black void. The girl stirs from her slumber and sits up. Opening her eyes bootup text appears before she sees that her physical optics are offline. Reaching out she taps the tab that says: eyes and two more tabs appear to the right reading: 'on' and 'off' next to each other with the 'off' tab appearing green while the 'on' tab is blue.
"Damn technicians couldn't be assed to turn back on my optics when they fixed my holon from that EMP bombs blast that knocked out all of my systems." She says and taps the 'on' tab and sees where she is.
Looking with her holon she looks to the other holons before looking back to her systems. Looking over all of her systems she finds that all of them, but her eyes were offline.
"Those fucking technicians can fix a fucking holon that is one of the most advanced pieces of fucking technology in the whole fucking universe but not turn-on my fucking systems." The girl yells out loud before turning back on all of her systems then ran a diagnostic sweep to find that her holon is once more reminiscent of a typical human body only scaled up to forty-feet (12.192 meters or four-stories). "What the fuck." Yells the girl looking around the physical world for anyone to yell at.
After several minutes of not finding anyone to yell at she decides to take several deep breaths and calm down. Activating her thermal vision, she finds only one heat signature. The girl not wanting to spook the individual uses the holoprojectors in the room to project herself in a nonthreatening form in the real world.
Real world underground hanger on mars (adept Wellis)
Wellis looking around the corner of his cover he saw only the titans and the hanger. Then Wellis felt Nugget jump out of hand and run to a random spot on the for then a bunch of blue hexagons appeared then from them appeared a girl in strange attire.
The girl looks in Wellis's direction before speaking, "I know your hiding around the corner."
Wellis completely unsure what to do continues to hide. Then nugget worms free of Wellis and runs up to the girl and seems to communicate with her. Wellis now worried about who this girl is attempts to contact any nearby Skitarii warriors to help, but unknown to him none were in contact range.
"Ya know this hanger passively jams all out bound unauthorized transmissions, right?" says a voice right next to Wellis who slowly looks to his right to see the girl standing next to him with nugget on her shoulder. Wellis completely surprised by this. Wellis udders the prayer of banishment in Techna-Lingua only to see the girl still there and giving him a strange and confused look. "Is there something wrong with my form?" asks the girl before she looks herself over.
And with just that question asked Wellis realizes what she or rather it is. "Amazing…", shouts Wellis getting the girls' attention," … the Deus Mechanicus(omnissiah) must have answered my preyers to speak with one of his greater machines." Says Wellis before he gets on his knees and clasps his hands together. "Great machine spirit what shall I address you as?" asks Wellis who looks on in awe at the girl.
After Wellis's outburst (Cameron MacCloud)
Cameron completely unsure how to respond just looks to the man dressed in robes who just continues to look at her as if she were a messenger of the gods. Resigning herself to the fact she needs new information she spoke, "(sigh) Well first I need some information before, then I'll tell you my name, alright."
The man still looking on in awe says, "yes, anything you require I shall provide."
"Great, come on…", says Cameron before she has two hardlight chairs made along with a table, "… we maybe at this for awhile." Says Cameron who takes a seat.
"Yes, if the Deus Mechanicus desires such knowledge then it shall be given." Says the man who takes the seat across from her and he seems surprised by the fact that it's solid.
"Alright, let's begin…", says Cameron looking at the man, "… what year is it?" asks Cameron getting ready to take in what she can only assume to be a lot of information.
"It is currently 990.M41," says the man looking at her as if she was the single most beautiful thing to ever exist.
Cameron right now feeling a panic attack coming on and needing time to process the fact that she has been essentially comatose for over thirty thousand years decides to end her questioning for now. "thank you for this information…", says Cameron before letting out a sigh, "… I'll ask for more on the history side of things later and just call me Cami." Says Cameron before she goes back to her holon and with her the chairs and table.
Wellis after speaking with Cami
"That was interesting…" says Wellis as he stood back up from the floor, "…nugget, is there anything wrong with Cami or did I say anything that she did not like." Asks Wellis to Nugget who was sitting on the dataslate.
"No, creator Cameron just returned to her holon in an effort to process what information you just provided." Says nugget before looking down to the ground. "That being said, creator Cameron is having an episode on cultural-time shock." Says nugget still looking down.
"Nugget, what is a cultural-time shock." Asks Wellis curious as to what it is.
"cultural-time shock is when an individual who is completely unaware of the passage of time and how culture has changed in their absence falls into a panic attack and will retreat to a place that at the very least their familiar to a degree." Replies nugget still looking to the ground.
"I see…" says Wellis who then looks to the titan, "…is there any way to draw out Cami from her titan." Asks Wellis looking to Cami's titan whose eyes are shining a blueish-green color.
"Yes, however, there is a ninety-nine-point-nine percent chance that… Well, do you know what a microwave oven is." Says nugget starting to look up at Wellis.
"Yes, I know what a microwave is, though I much prefer toasters." Says Wellis not catching on to what nugget was implying.
"Alright, well if anything goes wrong we might as well put your brain in a microwave." Says nugget looking up to Wellis who didn't look phased by that information.
"I see…," says Wellis who held his free hand to his chin before responding, "… it's a risk that must be taken to move forward." Says Wellis looking nugget in its optics.
"Understood, for you to access a holon you will need an uplink-node. Of which I do have a schematic for." Says nugget before a schematic for a bed-like device appeared in the dataslate.
Wellis looking over the schematic then puts down his dataslate on the terminal-pillar. "Nugget, I must go and gather the materials that will be required to construct such a device…" says Wellis looking nugget in the optics but with a much more determined look, "… I will be gone for perhaps several week or months but I will return." Says Wellis who then turns and walks out of the hanger and back to the surface to receive a summons from the Fabricator-General to his court chamber.
A/N: this is only the begining of a very long fight for the genlock team who may grow by a factor of a hundred.